Table for invalids&#39; beds



o. HOLTKAMP 1,849,926

TABLE FOR` INVALIDS BEDS Original Filed June l, 1927 Otto Holkamp.

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Patented Mar. 15, 1932 APATENT OFFICE OTTO HOLTKAMP, OF BERLIN, GERMANY TABLE FOR INVALIDS BEDS Original application filed June 1, 1927, Serial No. 195,823, and in Germany .Tune 10, 1926. Divided and this application led April A10,

Tables used for invalids beds are mostly adjustable as regards height by means of a slot and pin connection and adjustable for setting the inclination by means of a locked arc. For adjustment the loosening and tightening of screws on both sides is necessary, which the invalid can seldom do for himself so that the adjustment is relatively bothersome.

The present invention has for its object to so set the position of tables on invalids beds separate member attached thereto in a guiding slot and is xable with removable pins in notches, and further that the table itself is inclinably adjustable on its supports by means of spring catches released by pressure knobs. Separate screws for effecting the adjustment have therefore at no place to be loosened and tightened again. One constructional form of carrying out the present invention is illustrated by way of example in the accompanying drawings, in which Figure l shows a side view of a bedstead with a table attached, Y

Figure 2 shows the connection between the table and its supports,

Figure 2a is a vertical longitudinal sectional view on the line 2a-2a of Fig; 2,

Figure 3 shows the trestle for fastening to the bedstead and the guides therein for the' table supports. Y

The table top .a is guided bymeans of its supports fw on each side of the bed. Each support engages with a pin fw in an inclined slot o of a trestle c. There'are two trestles c, each of which is attached to the bed frame or any part of the bedstead a and has, for example, two rests o and v3 open to the same side so that the supports w can be adjusted with the pins fw fixed to the supports fw in the rests c or o3, for the purpose of putting the table away in the position shown in dotand-dash lines in Fig. 1 or for xing in a lower position as shown in theJ dotted lines,

1928. Serial No. 268,969.

The inclination of the table is so adjustable that the table top .a is connected to the supports fw by means of brackets y. To the supports fw, fiat springs are attached bearing a knob engaging outwardly through the supports lw and engaging with a pin in one of the notches y in the bracket y. By

pressing knobs inwardly the pins come out of the notches y and the table cover can be turned to the de siredV inclination and then fixed, as after releasing the knob the pin falls back into the desired notch y.

The number of notches in the member v can naturally be made as many as desired in order to obtain any desired height.

I claim:

In a table for invalids beds, in combination, two trestles each attached to one side of the bed, each trestle having an inclined longitudinal slot, supports for the table having pivots engaging in said slots,restson said trestles open to one side of said slots, and pins on said supports adapted to be engaged with said rests, substantially as de-V scribed.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature.

' OTTO HOLTKAMP. Y 

